Checkrein-hook



(No Model.)

0. TABER.

OHEGKREIN HOOK.

No. 424,624. Patented Apr. 1, 1890.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ORRIN TABER, OF EAST SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY DI- RECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE NASHUA SADDLERY HARD- IVARE COMPANY, OF NASHUA, NE\V HAMPSHIRE.

CHECKRElN-HOOKQ SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent NO. 424,624, dated. April 1, 1890.

Application filed February 26, I889. Serial No. 301,238. (No model.)

T all whom it may concern: with a hole I) (see dotted lines) to receive a Be it known that I, ORRIN TABER, of East bolt, screw, or other suitable fastening by Somerville, county of Middlesex, State of Maswhich the hook may be secured to the saddle sachusetts, have invented an lm n'ovementin tree. A lever is pivoted at a point between 5 Checkrein-Ilooks, of which the following deits ends to the opposite end of the said hook,

scription, in connection with the accompanywhich is recessed, as shown, to leave side or ing drawings, is a specification, like letters on cheek pieces, between which theleverishung, the drawings representing like parts. the pivot-pin passing through the pieces and This invention has for its object to improve the lever, one part or arm 0 of said lever serv- 10 the construction of checkrein-hooks, whereby ing to normally close the passage between the the loop of the checkrein, having but a small end of the hook and the seat of the saddle by circular hole through it, may be slipped onto gravity, while the other part or arm a prothe hook and heldin place, and thereafter may jects beyond the end of the hook and serves be removed with facility. as means by which the part or arm 0 is raised. 15 In accordance with this invention the hook, The part or portion 0 is made oval and taperbent as usual and commonly termed a wire ing toward its end.

hook, being circular 'in cross section, is In putting the checkrein on the hook it is formed at one end with a flattened portion very difficult to get an equalized strain on the having a hole through it to receive the bolt, fingers to avoid lateral strain on the pivoted 2o screw, or other fastening by which it may be lever, such lateral strain often breaking the attached to a saddle-tree A slender gravilever off of the hook at its pivot. tating lever is connected to the opposite end By the use of the side or cheek pieces latof said hook by a pivot-pin passing through eral strain or movement of the lever is imit and through side or cheek pieces at the end possible, the said pieces taking up and dis- 2 5 of the hook, and between which the lever is tributing such strain without subjecting the hung at a point between its ends, so that one lever and its pivot thereto. part or arm of said lever shall serve to nor- The under or inner side of the hook is mally close the passage between the end of grooved for a short distance at its end, as at the hook and the seat by gravity, while the a, to receive the part or arm 0 when in its 0 other part or arm of said lever shall project most elevated position,so that no obstruction beyond the end of the said hook and shall or enlargement is formed or presented to preserve as a means by which to move the lever vent ready removal of the checkrein, the loop into position to open the said passage, that of which has but a small hole through it. the checkrein may be removed. I am aware that it is not new to provide a 3 5 The under or inner side of the hook at the flat checkrein-hook with a pivoted lever, and,

end is grooved to receive one arm or part of furthermore, a spring was employed for the the said pivoted lever when raised, so that pivoted lever, moving it over a cam-shaped no obstruction or enlargement is formed or end, and instead of a groove being provided presented at the end of the hook which would for thelever the under side of the hook was 40 prevent the removal of the checkrein with facut away, so that the square corners of the lecility. ver were exposed, upon which the checkrein 0 Figure 1 shows, in side elevation, a checkcould catch.

rein or water hook embodying this invention; In Fig. 3 the flattened end portionb is made Fig. 2, a top View of the hook shown in Fig. 1; shorter than in Fig. 1to fit other forms of sad- 45 and Fig. 3, a hook of well-known form, having dle-tree.

my invention applied thereto. I claim The hook a, bent as usual and commonly The checkrein-hook herein described, contermed a wire hook,being circular in crosssisting of the hook at, the end of which is section, has a flattened portion I), provided grooved, as at a, and provided with side or cheek pieces, and the pivoted gravitating 1e- In testimony whereof I have signed my ver held between said side or cheek pieces, name to this specification in the presence of consisting of the part or arm 0, of suitable two subscribing Witnesses. shape to enter the said groove a, and the han- 5 die 0, the cheek-pieces preventing later-a1 dis- Witnesses:

placement of the lever, substantially as and BERNIGE J. NOYES, for the purposes set forth. I B. DEWAR.

ORRIN TAB-ER. 

